According to Albert Phurrough, great grandson of William Wesley Royal, Wiliam's first wife, Nancy, had inherited a share in her parent's estate. William is said to have spent that. I know nothing of this, not even family rumors. To be fair, it might not have been frivolous. He could have spent it getting out of debt. It is known, however, that he went to church in a surrey. Probably not a common site among the farmers in those days. William had begun to go blind in his latter years.